Dedef
18/02/2010
Pour le moment, à LM et au Pentagone, la priorité doit être à la construction de radeaux.
Voir ci dessous l’exemple:
“lun de mes collègues au département de gestion du risque de Countrywide, partageait mon intérêt intellectuel pour la crise et son déroulement et nous nous faisions bénéficier mutuellement de linformation que nous mettions à jour.
Plus le temps passait durant lannée 2007, plus nos supérieurs se désintéressaient du fonctionnement de la firme pour soccuper exclusivement de ce que jappellerais de manière imagée : « la construction du radeau ».
Mes combats darrière-garde relatifs à la qualité des modèles ayant cessé de retenir lattention, le temps que je pus consacrer journellement à la collecte dinformations relatives au déroulement de la crise ne cessa daugmenter.”
source: http://www.pauljorion.com/blog/?p=7179
26 jan 2010
A rapprocher du texte sur le narcissisme (le_narcissisme_l_un_des_facteurs_psychologiques_de_la_crise), ou de la fin d’Enron ou de la banque Morgan: Le versement de mes bonus d’abord, la faillite juste aprés…
Dedef
18/02/2010
Les britanniques commencent à sagiter sur leur “Government Green Paper that will pave the way for a full-scale strategic defence review after the General Election” .
ci dessous extraits de 2 textes parmi d’autres. Le point curieux est qu’ils semblent aimer la France de plus en plus. Bientôt l’Entente Cordiale, mais contre qui ?
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Closer ties with France and other allies in UKs forces future
MercoPress Thursday, February 4th 2010 -
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/02/04/closer-ties-with-france-and-other-allies-in-uk-s-forces-future
As the contents of the green paper were announced the Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, was asked if it was “plausible” that three separate armed services would still exist in a decade from now.
“Certainly it is plausible,” he told the MoD news conference, but said there were issues to be debated.
The new document does not refer directly to the future of specific programs - except to confirm the £20 billion update of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent will still go ahead.
Mr Ainsworth said the “likelihood” is the Royal Navy will still get two new aircraft carriers but he would not comment on the American-built Joint Strike Fighters intended to fly from them. Funding for Afghanistan is to increase from £3.5 billion this year to £5b billion in 2011.
But Mr Ainsworth said in future the forces will not be able to “insure against every risk” and decisions will have to be taken on where the most important priorities lie.
“Tough choices will lie ahead and we need to rebalance our budget to better reflect our priorities,” he said at the Ministry of Defence news conference.
While the Green Paper emphasises that the United States remains Britain’s most important ally, it says the UK will in future have to look to co-operate more widely with other countries.
“In Europe, the return of France to Nato’s integrated military structures offers an opportunity for even greater co-operation with a key partner across a range of defence activity,” it said.
The paper identified the three main threats as terrorists such as al Qaeda, hostile states and fragile or failing states. It said that in future, the UK and its allies would not necessarily maintain the “technological edge” they had become accustomed to over the past 20 years as other nations closed the technology gap.
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Tories Share Plans for U.K. Strategic Defense Review
andrew chuter 8 Feb 2010
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4490132
LONDON - Britain has to retain the capability to act unilaterally and not just as part of an alliance, according to the man most likely to become defense secretary if the Conservative Party wins the upcoming general election.
Liam Fox, the shadow defense secretary, gave a glimpse of Conservative thinking at the Royal United Services Institute on Feb. 8, saying his party does not accept the assumption in the Green Paper released by the Ministry of Defence last week that Britain will always operate as part of an alliance.
“We have unique national interests and have to maintain the capability to act unilaterally if required,” Fox said
Fox said that despite the requirement for Britain to be able to operate on its own it would continue to build overseas alliances, particularly with the U.S. and France.
Defense procurement would help underpin Britain’s strategic relationship with the United States, France and some Commonwealth countries, Fox said.
The Labour Party green paper released last week laid out some of the issues a British government will have to consider when it comes to conduct the first strategic defense review here in 12 years.
Fox said the ability to act unilaterally was one of two essential requirements. The other was that British forces “maintain generic capability able to adapt to any changing threats.”
There is considerable and ongoing debate here about whether Britain can afford to retain its full military capabilities to meet state-on-state threats or should develop more specialist armed forces aimed at combating asymmetric threats.
Fox made reference to Royal Navy and the Army for the future but didn’t mention the Royal Air Force. It has already taken the bulk of the capability cuts announced by the current government in December.
Retaining the ability to act unilaterally and maintain a full suite of military capabilities will come with potentially heavy cost implications at a time of huge pressure on the defense budget, analysts here warn.
The strategic review would be carried out “ruthlessly and without sentiment,” Fox said. “Tough decisions will be made and there will be winners and losers at the end of the process.
One of the biggest challenges for a new government would be reforming the procurement process, he said.
He declined to discuss individual equipment programs ahead of the defense and security review.
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